Re: Why not BASIC ? (was Re: GNU Script ...)

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From: Ian Collier
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 13:05

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In article <3agcr4$ce2@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, romanov@alex.nacto.lkg.dec.com (Aleksey Y. Romanov) wrote:
|I meant simple procedural language. I think that following requirements
|are important:

|  - it has to be exisiting language
|  - it has to be simple enough non CS/Math/Physcs majors to use
|  - it has to be interpretive

It sounds like REXX to me... :-)

(On the off chance that anyone feels the need to find out what REXX is,
please see my WWW page named below).

Ian Collier - Departmental Lecturer (and perpetual postgrad student) -
imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk - Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Wolfson
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